9. Athlete

As a group, athletes often get a bad reputation because of the overexposure of headline stars who make tens of millions of dollars a year and whose antics eat up entire news cycles. But famous athletes only have their jobs because they're far, far better at doing what they do than most of us could ever be, and even the annoying ones — or especially the annoying ones — are in the spotlight because they're the absolute best in their fields. Olympians in particular are attributed the respect of being the very best at what they do, even as they're not motivated by financial gain.